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Ref No:a04872
Title:Scissors and keys
Location:Sheffield
Date:1862
Date Period:1851-1899
Notes:

Image from J. B. Waring, 'Masterpieces of Industrial Art and Sculpture at the International Exhibition, 1862' (Day and Son, 1863).

Scissors made by Thomas Wilkinson and Son, Sheffield. The from originally made the ‘VICTORIA@ scissors for the Great Exhibition, 1851.

On Wilkinson see G. Tweedale, Tweedale’s Directory of Sheffield Cutlery manufacturers 1740-2013 (end edition, 2018)

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